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County FIPS code [4] County seat [5] Established [5] Origin Etymology [6] Population [7] Area [5] Map Adams County: 001: Gettysburg: 1800: Parts of York County: John Adams, second U.S. President: 106,748: 522 sq mi (1,352 km 2) Allegheny County: 003: Pittsburgh: 1788: Parts of Washington and Westmoreland Counties
Rank Photo Seat name Population (2010 census) County Municipal type 1 Philadelphia: 1,526,006 Philadelphia: City 2 Pittsburgh: 305,704 Allegheny: City
Pages in category "County seats in Pennsylvania" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The county represents the northern boundary of the Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD metropolitan statistical area. To its southwest, Bucks County borders Montgomery County and Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. To its east, the county borders the Delaware River and U.S. state of New Jersey.
The county is approximately 47 miles (76 km) west of Allentown, the state's third-largest city, and 97 miles (156 km) northwest of Philadelphia, the state's largest city. The county was created on March 1, 1811, from parts of Berks and Northampton counties [4] and named for the Schuylkill River, which originates in the county. On March 3, 1818 ...
York County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. [1] Its county seat is York. [2] The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and county of York in England.
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The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse national origins of settlers in the new county: [21] two had Welsh names (Caernarvon and Lampeter), three had Native American names (Cocalico, Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton), six were English (Warwick, Lancaster, Martic, Sadsbury, Salisbury and Hempfield); four were ...